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SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology, Automotive engineering, Land transport

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The credit for the first design of sheep shears lies with James Higham, who patented the idea in 1868. However, its practical and commercial success lay in the work of a number of people, to each of whom Frederick Wolseley provides the connecting link.

One of three brothers, he emigrated to Australia in 1854 and worked in New South Wales for five years. In 1867 he produced a working model of mechanical sheep shears, but it took a further five years before he actually produced a machine, whilst working as Manager of a sheep station in Victoria. In the intervening period it is possible that he visited America and Britain. On returning to Australia in 1872 he and Robert Savage produced another working model in a workshop in Melbourne. Four years later, by which time Wolseley had acquired the "Euroka" sheep station at Walgett, they tested the model and in 1877 acquired joint patent rights. The machine was not successful, and in 1884 another joint patent, this time with Robert Pickup, was taken out on a cog-gear universal joint. Development was to take several more years, during which a highly skilled blacksmith by the name of George Gray joined the team. It is likely that he was the first person to remove a fleece from a sheep mechanically. Finally, the last to be involved in the development of the shears was another Englishman, John Howard, who emigrated to Australia in 1883 with the intention of developing a shearing machine based on his knowledge of existing horse clippers. Wolseley purchased Howard's patent rights and gave him a job. The first public demonstration of the shears was held at the wool stores of Goldsborough \& Co. of Melbourne. Although the hand shearers were faster, when the three sheep that had been clipped by them were re-shorn using the mechanical machine, a further 2 lb (900 g) of wool was removed.

Wolseley placed the first manufacturing order with A.P.Parks, who employed a young Englishman by the name of Herbert Austin. A number of improvements to the design were suggested by Austin, who acquired patents and assigned them to Wolseley in 1895 in return for shares in the company. Austin returned to England to run the Wolseley factory in Birmingham. He also built there the first car to carry the Wolseley name, and subsequently opened a car factory carrying his own name.

Wolseley resigned as Managing Director of the company in 1894 and died five years later.

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1) (indicating belonging, connection, possession)

2) (indicating starting point) von

3) (indicating origin, cause)

4) (indicating material) aus

5) (indicating closer definition, identity, or contents)

6) (indicating concern, reference)

7) (indicating objective relation)

8) (indicating description, quality, condition)

9) (indicating classification, selection) von

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1) (belonging to: a friend of mine.) von

2) (away from (a place etc); after (a given time): within five miles of London; within a year of his death.) von

3) (written etc by: the plays of Shakespeare.) von

4) (belonging to or forming a group: He is one of my friends.) von

5) (showing: a picture of my father.) von

6) (made from; consisting of: a dress of silk; a collection of pictures.) aus

7) (used to show an amount, measurement of something: a gallon of petrol; five bags of coal.) mit

8) (about: an account of his work.) von

9) (containing: a box of chocolates.) mit

10) (used to show a cause: She died of hunger.) an

11) (used to show a loss or removal: She was robbed of her jewels.) Genitiv

12) (used to show the connection between an action and its object: the smoking of a cigarette.) Genitiv

13) (used to show character, qualities etc: a man of courage.) mit

14) ((American) (of time) a certain number of minutes before (the hour): It's ten minutes of three.) vor

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[ɒv, əv, AM ɑ:v, əv]

1. after n (belonging to) von + dat

people \of this island Menschen von dieser Insel

the language \of this country die Sprache dieses Landes

the cause \of the disease die Krankheitsursache

the colour \of her hair ihre Haarfarbe

the government \of India die indische Regierung

a friend \of mine ein Freund von mir

smoking is the worst habit \of mine Rauchen ist meine schlimmste Angewohnheit

this revolting dog \of hers ihr widerlicher Hund

the smell \of roses Rosenduft m

2. after n (expressing relationship) von + dat

an admirer \of Picasso ein Bewunderer Picassos

3. after n (expressing a whole's part) von + dat

five \of her seven kids are boys fünf ihrer sieben Kinder sind Jungen

there were ten \of us on the trip wir waren auf der Reise zu zehnt

nine \of the children came to the show neun Kinder kamen zur Vorstellung

can you please give me more \of the beans? könntest du mir noch etwas von den Bohnen geben?

I don't want to hear any more \of that! ich will nichts mehr davon hören!

he's the best-looking \of the three brothers er sieht von den drei Brüdern am besten aus

a third \of the people ein Drittel der Leute

the whole \of the garden der ganze Garten

the best \of friends die besten Freunde

the days \of the week die Wochentage

all \of us wir alle

all \of us were tired wir waren alle müde

\of all von allen

best \of all, I liked the green one am besten gefiel mir der grüne

that \of all his films is my favourite er gefällt mir von allen seinen Filmen am besten

both \of us wir beide

most \of them die meisten von ihnen

one \of the cleverest eine(r) der Schlauesten

he's one \of the smartest \of the smart er ist einer der Klügsten unter den Klugen

4. after n (expressing quantities)

a bunch \of parsley ein Bund Petersilie nt

a clove \of garlic eine Knoblauchzehe

a cup \of tea eine Tasse Tee

a drop \of rain ein Regentropfen

hundreds \of people Hunderte von Menschen

a kilo \of apples ein Kilo Äpfel nt

a litre \of water ein Liter Wasser m

a lot \of money eine Menge Geld

a piece \of cake ein Stück Kuchen

a pride \of lions ein Rudel Löwen [o Löwenrudel] nt

5. after vb (consisting of) aus + dat

the sweater is made \of the finest lambswool der Pullover ist aus feinster Schafwolle

a land \of ice and snow ein Land aus Eis und Schnee

dresses \of lace and silk Kleider aus Spitze und Seide

a house \of stone ein Steinhaus, ein Haus aus Stein

6. after n (containing) mit + dat

a book \of short stories ein Buch mit Kurzgeschichten

7. after adj (done by) von + dat

that was stupid \of me das war dumm von mir

8. after n (done to)

the massacre \of hundreds \of innocent people das Massaker an Hunderten von Menschen

the destruction \of the rain forest die Zerstörung des Regenwalds

9. after n (suffered by) von + dat

the anguish \of the murdered child's parents die Qualen der Eltern des ermordeten Kindes

the suffering \of millions das Leiden von Millionen

10. (expressing cause)

to die \of sth an etw dat sterben

he died \of cancer er starb an Krebs

\of one's own free will aus freien Stücken, freiwillig

\of oneself von selbst

she would never do such a thing \of herself so etwas würde sie nie von alleine tun

11. (expressing origin)

the works \of Shakespeare die Werke Shakespeares

she is \of noble birth sie ist adliger Abstammung

12. after vb (concerning)

we will notify you \of any further changes wir werden Sie über alle Änderungen informieren

he was accused \of fraud er wurde wegen Betrugs angeklagt

I know \of a guy who could fix that for you ich kenne jemanden, der das für dich reparieren kann

\of her childhood, we know very little wir wissen nur sehr wenig über ihre Kindheit

let's not speak \of this matter lass uns nicht über die Sache reden

speaking \of sb/sth,... wo [o da] wir gerade von jdm/etw sprechen,...

speaking \of time, do you have a watch on? da wir gerade von der Zeit reden, hast du eine Uhr?

she's often unsure \of herself sie ist sich ihrer selbst oft nicht sicher

I'm really appreciative \of all your help ich bin dir für all deine Hilfe wirklich dankbar

he was worthy \of the medal er hatte die Medaille verdient

I am certain \of that ich bin mir dessen sicher

this is not uncharacteristic \of them das ist für sie nichts Ungewöhnliches

to be afraid \of sb/sth vor jdm/etw Angst haben

to be fond \of swimming gerne schwimmen

to be jealous \of sb auf jdn eifersüchtig sein

to be sick \of sth etw satthaben, von etw dat genug haben

there was no warning \of the danger es gab keine Warnung vor der Gefahr

he has a love \of music er liebt die Musik

he's a doctor \of medicine er ist Doktor der Medizin

the idea \of a just society die Idee einer gerechten Gesellschaft

the memories \of her school years die Erinnerungen an ihre Schuljahre

the pain \of separation der Trennungsschmerz

it's a problem \of space das ist ein Raumproblem

his promises \of loyalty seine Treueversprechen

to be in search \of sb/sth auf der Suche nach jdm/etw sein

she's in search \of a man sie sucht einen Mann

thoughts \of revenge Rachegedanken pl

▪ what \of sb? was ist mit jdm?

and what \of Adrian? was macht eigentlich Adrian?

what \of it? was ist schon dabei?, na und?

13. after n (expressing condition)

on the point [or verge] \of doing sth kurz davor [o im Begriff] sein, etw zu tun

I'm on the point \of telling him off ich werde ihn jetzt gleich rausschmeißen

14. after n (expressing position) von + dat

in the back \of the car hinten im Auto

the zipper was on the back \of the dress der Reißverschluss war hinten am Kleid

on the corner \of the street an der Straßenecke

on the left \of the picture links auf dem Bild

a lake north/south \of the city ein See im Norden/Süden der Stadt

I've never been north \of Edinburgh ich war noch nie nördlich von Edinburgh

on the top \of his head [oben] auf seinem Kopf

15. after n (with respect to scale) von + dat

a rise \of 2% in inflation ein Inflationsanstieg von 2 Prozent

the stocks experienced an average rise \of 5% die Aktien sind im Durchschnitt um 5 % gestiegen

16. (expressing age) von + dat

at the age \of six im Alter von sechs Jahren

he's a man \of about 50 er ist um die 50 Jahre alt

17. after n (denoting example of category)

I hate this kind \of party ich hasse diese Art von Party

the city \of Prague die Stadt Prag

18. after n (typical of)

she has the face \of an angel sie hat ein Gesicht wie ein Engel

the grace \of a dancer die Anmut einer Tänzerin

the love \of a good woman die Liebe einer guten Frau

19. after n (expressing characteristic)

she gave a scream \of terror sie stieß einen Schrei des Entsetzens aus

a man \of honour ein Mann von Ehre

a moment \of silence ein Moment m der Stille

I want a few minutes \of quiet! ich will ein paar Minuten Ruhe!

a subject \of very little interest ein sehr wenig beachtetes Thema

a woman \of great charm and beauty eine Frau von großer Wärme und Schönheit

20. after n (away from) von + dat

we live within a mile \of the city centre wir wohnen eine Meile vom Stadtzentrum entfernt

she came within two seconds \of beating the world record sie hat den Weltrekord nur um zwei Sekunden verfehlt

21. after n (in time phrases)

I got married back in June \of 1957 ich habe im Juni 1957 geheiratet

the eleventh \of March der elfte März

the first \of the month der erste [Tag] des Monats

the most memorable events \of the past decade die wichtigsten Ereignisse des letzten Jahrzehnts

22. after vb (expressing removal)

they were robbed \of all their savings ihnen wurden alle Ersparnisse geraubt

I've him \of that nasty little habit ich habe ihm diese dumme Angewohnheit abgewöhnt

his mother had deprived him \of love seine Mutter hat ihm ihre Liebe vorenthalten

to get rid \of sb jdn loswerden

the room was devoid \of all furnishings der Raum war ganz ohne Möbel

free \of charge kostenlos, SCHWEIZ, ÖSTERR meist gratis

23. after n (apposition) von + dat

this complete idiot \of a man dieser Vollidiot

the month \of June der Monat Juni

the name \of Brown der Name Brown

24. ( dated: during) an + dat

she died \of a Sunday morning sie starb an einem Sonntagmorgen

I like to relax with my favourite book \of an evening ich entspanne mich abends gerne mit meinem Lieblingsbuch

\of late in letzter Zeit

25. AM (to) vor

it's quarter \of five es ist viertel vor fünf [o BRD drei viertel fünf

▶ \of all gerade

Jane, \of all people, is the last one I'd expect to see at the club gerade Jane ist die letzte, die ich in dem Klub erwartet hätte

I can't understand why you live in Ireland, \of all places ich kann nicht verstehen, warum du ausgerechnet in Irland lebst

today \of all days ausgerechnet heute

▶ \of all the cheek [or nerve] das ist doch die Höhe!

▶ to be \of sth:

she is \of the opinion that doctors are only out to experiment sie glaubt, Ärzte möchten nur herumexperimentieren

this work is \of great interest and value diese Arbeit ist sehr wichtig und wertvoll

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1) (indicating possession or relation) von (+dat), use of gen

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3)

4)

5) (indicating material) aus

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11) (obs, liter

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of [ɒv; əv; US əv; ɑv] präp

1. allg von

2. zur Bezeichnung des Genitivs:

the tail of the dog der Schwanz des Hundes;

the tail of a dog der oder ein Hundeschwanz;

the folly of his action die Dummheit seiner Handlung

3. Ort: bei:

4. Entfernung, Trennung, Befreiung:

a) von:

south of London südlich von London;

within ten miles of London im Umkreis von 10 Meilen um London;

cure (rid) of sth von etwas heilen (befreien)

b) (gen) he was robbed of his wallet er wurde seiner Brieftasche beraubt, ihm wurde die Brieftasche geraubt

c) um:

5. Herkunft: von, aus:

of good family aus einer guten Familie;

Mr X of London Mr. X aus London

6. Teil: von oder gen:

the best of my friends;

a friend of mine ein Freund von mir, einer meiner Freunde;

that red nose of his seine rote Nase

7. Eigenschaft: von, mit:

a man of courage ein mutiger Mann, ein Mann mit Mut;

a man of no importance ein unbedeutender Mensch;

a fool of a man ein (ausgemachter) Narr

8. Stoff: aus, von:

a dress of silk ein Kleid aus oder von Seide, ein Seidenkleid;

(made) of steel aus Stahl (hergestellt), stählern, Stahl…

9. Urheberschaft, Art und Weise: von:

the works of Byron;

it was clever of him;

of o.s. von selbst, von sich aus;

he has a son of his first marriage er hat einen Sohn aus erster Ehe

10. Ursache, Grund:

a) von, an (dat):

die of cancer an Krebs sterben

b) aus:

c) vor (dat): → academic.ru/1052/afraid">afraid

d) auf (akk):

e) über (akk):

f) nach:

11. Beziehung: hinsichtlich (gen):

it is true of every case das trifft in jedem Fall zu

12. Thema:

a) von, über (akk):

b) an (akk):

13. Apposition, im Deutschen nicht ausgedrückt:

a) the city of London die Stadt London;

the month of April der Monat April

b) Maß:

a piece of meat ein Stück Fleisch

14. Genitivus obiectivus:

a) zu:

b) vor (dat): → fear A 3

c) bei:

an audience of the king eine Audienz beim König

15. Zeit:

a) umg an (dat), in (dat):

of an evening eines Abends;

of late years in den letzten Jahren

b) von:

your letter of March 3rd Ihr Schreiben vom 3. März

c) US vor (bei Zeitangaben):

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1) (indicating belonging, connection, possession)

2) (indicating starting point) von

3) (indicating origin, cause)

4) (indicating material) aus

5) (indicating closer definition, identity, or contents)

6) (indicating concern, reference)

7) (indicating objective relation)

8) (indicating description, quality, condition)

9) (indicating classification, selection) von

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aus präp.

von präp.

vor präp.

über präp.

1. down [daʊn] adv

1) (in/ to a lower position) hinunter, hinab;

( towards sb) herunter, herab;

the baby falls \down constantly das Baby fällt ständig hin;

get \down off that table! komm sofort von diesem Tisch herunter!;

the leaflet slipped \down behind the wardrobe die Broschüre ist hinter dem Kleiderschrank hinuntergerutscht;

you'll have to come further \down [the steps] du musst noch ein Stück treppab gehen;

“\down!” ( to dog) „Platz!“;

to be [or lie] face \down auf dem Bauch [o mit dem Gesicht nach unten] liegen;

to put \down sth etw hinstellen

2) inv ( in the south) im Süden, unten ( fam) ( towards the south) in den Süden, runter ( fam)

things are much more expensive \down [in the] south unten im Süden ist alles viel teurer;

how often do you come \down to Cornwall? wie oft kommen Sie nach Cornwall runter? ( fam)

3) inv ( away from centre) außerhalb;

my parents live \down in Worcestershire, but they come up to London occasionally meine Eltern leben außerhalb in Worcestershire, aber sie kommen gelegentlich nach London;

he has a house \down by the harbour er hat ein Haus draußen am Hafen;

\down our way hier in unserem Viertel [o unserer Gegend];

4) (in/ to a weaker position) unten;

she's certainly come \down in the world! da muss es mit ihr ganz schön bergab gegangen sein! ( fam)

to be \down on one's luck eine Pechsträhne haben;

she's been \down on her luck recently in letzter Zeit ist sie vom Pech verfolgt;

to be \down to sth nur noch etw haben;

to be \down with sth an etw dat erkrankt sein;

she's \down with flu sie liegt mit einer Grippe im Bett;

to come [or go] \down with sth an etw dat erkranken, etw bekommen ( fam)

to hit [or kick] sb when he's \down jdn treten, wenn er schon am Boden liegt ( fig)

5) sports im Rückstand;

Milan were three goals \down at half-time zur Halbzeit lag Mailand [um] drei Tore zurück;

he quit the poker game when he was only $50 \down er hörte mit dem Pokerspiel auf, als er erst 50 Dollar verloren hatte

6) ( in time)

Joan of Arc's fame has echoed \down [through] the centuries Jean d'Arcs Ruhm hat die Jahrhunderte überdauert;

\down to the last century bis ins vorige Jahrhundert [hinein];

to come \down myths überliefert werden;

to pass [or hand] sth \down etw weitergeben [o überliefern];

7) (at/ to a lower amount) niedriger;

the pay offer is \down 2% from last year das Lohnangebot liegt 2 % unter dem vom Vorjahr;

the number of students has gone \down die Zahl der Studierenden ist gesunken;

to get the price \down den Preis drücken [o herunterhandeln];

8) (in/ to a weaker condition) herunter;

let the fire burn \down lass das Feuer herunterbrennen;

settle \down, you two gebt mal ein bisschen Ruhe ihr zwei;

to turn the music/radio \down die Musik/das Radio leiser stellen [o machen];

to water a drink \down ein Getränk verwässern

9) ( including) bis einschließlich;

from sb/sth \down to sb/ sth von jdm/etw bis hin zu jdm/etw;

the entire administration has come under suspicion, from the mayor \down das gesamte Verwaltungspersonal, angefangen beim Bürgermeister, ist in Verdacht geraten

10) ( on paper)

to have sth \down in writing [or on paper] etw schriftlich haben;

do you have it \down in writing or was it just a verbal agreement? haben Sie das schwarz auf weiß oder war es nur eine mündliche Vereinbarung? ( fam)

to copy sth \down etw niederschreiben [o zu Papier bringen];

to get [or put] sb \down for sth jdn für etw akk vormerken;

we've got you \down for five tickets wir haben fünf Karten für Sie vorbestellt;

to put sth \down etw aufschreiben [o niederschreiben];

to write sth \down etw niederschreiben [o schriftlich niederlegen];

11) ( swallowed) hinunter;

to get sth \down etw [hinunter]schlucken;

she couldn't get the pill \down sie brachte die Tablette nicht hinunter ( fam)

you'll feel better once you've got some hot soup \down du wirst dich besser fühlen, wenn du ein bisschen heiße Suppe gegessen hast;

to keep sth \down med etw bei sich dat behalten

12) ( thoroughly) gründlich;

to nail sth \down etw festnageln;

to wash/wipe sth \down etw von oben bis unten waschen/wischen;

he washed the car \down with soapy water er wusch den Wagen gründlich mit Seifenlauge

13) ( already finished) vorbei;

two lectures \down, eight to go zwei Vorlesungen haben wir schon besucht, es bleiben also noch acht

14) ( as initial payment) als Anzahlung;

to pay [or put] £100 \down 100 Pfund anzahlen

15) ( attributable)

to be \down to sth auf etw akk zurückzuführen sein;

the problem is \down to her inexperience, not any lack of intelligence es liegt an ihrer Unerfahrenheit, nicht an mangelnder Intelligenz;

to be [or (Am a.) come] \down to sb jds Sache sein;

it's all \down to you now to make it work nun ist es an Ihnen, die Sache in Gang zu bringen

16) ( reduce to)

to come \down to sth auf etw akk hinauslaufen;

what the problem comes \down to is this:... die entscheidende Frage ist:...;

well, if I bring it \down to its simplest level,... also, stark vereinfacht könnte man sagen,...

17) ( in crossword puzzles) senkrecht

18) (sl: okay)

to be \down with sth mit etw dat o.k. gehen ( fam)

\down to the ground völlig, ganz und gar, total ( fam)

that suits me \down to the ground das ist genau das Richtige für mich prep

1) ( in a downward direction)

\down sth etw hinunter [o herunter];

my uncle's in hospital after falling \down some stairs mein Onkel ist im Krankenhaus, nachdem er die Treppe heruntergefallen ist;

up and \down the stairs die Treppe rauf und runter;

she poured the liquid \down the sink sie schüttete die Flüssigkeit in den Abfluss

2) ( downhill) hinunter, hinab;

to go \down the hill/ mountain den Hügel/Berg hinuntergehen;

I walked \down the hill ich ging den Hügel hinab

3) ( along)

\down sth etw hinunter [o entlang];

go \down the street towards the river gehen Sie die Straße entlang zum Fluss;

her office is \down the corridor on the right ihr Büro ist weiter den Gang entlang auf der rechten Seite;

we drove \down the motorway as far as Bristol wir fuhren die Schnellstraße hinunter bis nach Bristol;

they sailed the boat \down the river sie segelten mit dem Boot flussabwärts;

I ran my finger \down the list of ingredients ich ging mit dem Finger die Zutatenliste durch;

her long red hair reached most of the way \down her back ihre langen roten Haare bedeckten fast ihren ganzen Rücken;

\down town stadteinwärts;

I went \down town ich fuhr in die Stadt hinein;

\down one's way in jds Gegend;

they speak with a peculiar accent \down his way in seiner Ecke haben die Leute einen besonderen Akzent;

up and \down sb/ sth bei jdm/etw auf und ab

4) ( through time)

\down sth durch etw hindurch, über etw hinweg;

\down the generations über Generationen hinweg;

\down the centuries durch die Jahrhunderte hindurch;

\down the ages von Generation zu Generation;

\down the road [or line] [or track] auf der ganzen Linie ( fig), voll und ganz ( fig)

5) (Brit, Aus) (fam: to)

\down sth zu [o in] etw dat;

I went \down the pub with my mates ich ging mit meinen Freunden in die Kneipe;

to go \down the shops einkaufen gehen

6) food ( inside)

sth \down sb etw in jdm;

you'll feel better once you've got some hot soup \down you du fühlst dich gleich besser, wenn du ein bisschen heiße Suppe gegessen hast

to go \down the drain [or toilet] [or tube[s]] [or plughole] [or (Brit a.) pan] [or ( Aus) gurgler] für die Katz sein;

we don't want all their hard work to go \down the drain ich möchte nicht, dass ihre harte Arbeit ganz umsonst ist adj <more \down, most \down>

1) inv ( moving downward) abwärtsführend, nach unten nach n;

the \down escalator die Rolltreppe nach unten

2) pred (fam: unhappy, sad) niedergeschlagen, deprimiert, down ( fam)

I've been feeling a bit \down this week diese Woche bin ich nicht so gut drauf ( fam)

3) (fam: unhappy with)

to be \down on sb jdn auf dem Kieker haben ( fam)

4) pred, inv ( not functioning) außer Betrieb;

the computer will be \down for an hour der Computer wird für eine Stunde abgeschaltet;

I'm afraid the [telephone] lines are \down ich fürchte, die Telefonleitungen sind tot

5) inv ( Brit) (dated: travelling away from the city) stadtauswärts fahrend attr;

\down platform Bahnsteig m für stadtauswärts fahrende Züge

6) ( sunk to a low level) niedrig;

the river is \down der Fluss hat [o ( geh) führt] Niedrigwasser vt

1) boxing, sports ( knock down)

to \down sb jdn zu Fall bringen; boxing jdn niederschlagen [o (sl) auf die Bretter schicken];

2) ( shoot down)

to \down sth etw abschießen [o ( fam) runterholen];

3) ( esp Brit)

to \down tools ( cease work) mit der Arbeit aufhören;

( have a break) die Arbeit unterbrechen;

( during strike) die Arbeit niederlegen;

the printers are threatening to \down tools die Drucker drohen mit Arbeitsniederlegungen

4) (Am, Aus) sports ( defeat)

to \down sb jdn schlagen [o ( fam) fertigmachen];

5) (swallow [quickly])

to \down sth food etw verschlingen [o herunterschlingen]; drink etw hinunterschlucken [o ( fam) hinunterkippen] [o ( fam) runterschütten];

he'd \downed four beers er hatte vier Bier gekippt ( fam) n

1) ( bad fortune) Tiefpunkt m, schlechte Zeit;

ups and \downs Auf und Ab nt;

well, we've had our ups and \downs wir haben schon Höhen und Tiefen durchgemacht

2) (fam: dislike) Groll m;

to have a \down on sb jdn auf dem Kieker haben ( fam)

why do you have a \down on him? was hast du gegen ihn?

3) (Am) fball Versuch m;

it's second \down and seven yards to go es ist der zweite Versuch, und es sind noch sieben Yards interj

\down with taxes! weg mit den Steuern!;

\down with the dictator! nieder mit dem Diktator!

2. down [daʊn] n

1) ( soft feathers) Daunen fpl, Flaumfedern fpl

2) ( soft hair or fluff) [Bart]flaum m, feine Härchen n

modifier Daunen-;

\down jacket/ quilt Daunenjacke f /-decke f

3. down [daʊn] n

( esp Brit) Hügelland nt, [baumloser] Höhenzug;

the \downs pl die Downs (an der Südküste Englands)

north [nɔ:θ]

1 noun

(a) Geography nord m;

∎ in the north au nord, dans le nord;

∎ the region to the north of Sydney la région au nord de Sydney;

∎ two miles to the north trois kilomètres au nord;

∎ look towards the north regardez vers le nord;

∎ I was born in the north je suis né dans le Nord;

∎ in the north of India dans le nord de l'Inde;

∎ the wind is in the north le vent est au nord;

∎ the wind is coming from the north le vent vient ou souffle du nord;

∎ History the North (in American Civil War) = les États antiesclavagistes du nord des États-Unis; (affluent countries) le Nord;

∎ the North-South divide (in Britain) = ligne fictive de démarcation, en termes de richesse, entre le nord de l'Angleterre (plus pauvre) et le sud (plus riche); (in global economy) fossé m Nord-Sud;

∎ South of England familiar north and south (rhyming slang mouth) bouche f, clapet m

(b) Cards nord m

2 adjective

(a) Geography nord (inv), du nord; (country, state) du Nord; (wall) exposé au nord;

∎ the north coast la côte nord;

∎ in north London dans le nord de Londres;

∎ in North India en Inde du Nord;

∎ the North Atlantic/Pacific l'Atlantique m/le Pacifique Nord;

∎ the North Atlantic Drift le Gulf Stream

(b) (wind) de nord, du nord

3 adverb

au nord; (travel) vers le nord, en direction du nord;

∎ the ranch lies north of the town le ranch est situé au nord de la ville;

∎ this room faces north cette pièce est exposée au nord;

∎ the trail heads (due) north le chemin va ou mène (droit) vers le nord;

∎ go north until you come to a village allez vers le nord jusqu'à ce que vous arriviez à un village;

∎ I drove north for two hours j'ai roulé pendant deux heures en direction du nord;

∎ we're going north for our holidays nous allons passer nos vacances dans le Nord;

∎ I travelled north je suis allé vers le nord;

∎ to sail north naviguer cap sur le nord;

∎ it's 20 miles north of Manchester c'est à 32 kilomètres au nord de Manchester;

∎ they live up north ils habitent dans le Nord;

∎ north by east/by west nord-quart-nord-est/nord-quart-nord-ouest;

∎ further north plus au nord;

∎ north of Watford = façon humoristique de désigner la partie nord de l'Angleterre

►► North Africa Afrique f du Nord;

∎ in North Africa en Afrique du Nord;

1 noun

Nord-Africain(e) m,f

2 adjective

nord-africain, d'Afrique du Nord;

North America Amérique f du Nord; North American

1 noun

Nord-Américain(e) m,f

2 adjective

nord-américain, d'Amérique du Nord;

the North American Indians les Indiens mpl d'Amérique du Nord;

Economics North American Free Trade Agreement Accord m de libre-échange nord-américain;

the North Cape le cap Nord;

North Carolina la Caroline du Nord;

∎ in North Carolina en Caroline du Nord;

the North Circular = voie périphérique rapide au nord de Londres;

the North Country (in England) l'Angleterre f du Nord; (in America) = l'Alaska, le Yukon et les Territoires du Nord-Ouest;

∎ he's got a North Country accent il a un accent du Nord;

North Dakota le Dakota du Nord;

∎ in North Dakota dans le Dakota du Nord;

the North Downs = région de collines calcaires au sud de Londres;

North Island l'île f du Nord;

∎ in (the) North Island à l'île du Nord;

North Korea Corée f du Nord; North Korean

1 noun

Nord-Coréen(enne) m,f

2 adjective

nord-coréen;

the North Pole le pôle Nord;

North Rhine-Westphalia Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie f;

∎ in North Rhine-Westphalia en Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie;

North Sea, the North Sea la mer du Nord;

the North Star l'étoile f Polaire;

the North Star State = surnom donné au Minnesota;

North Vietnam le Viêt-Nam du Nord;

1 noun

Nord-Vietnamien(enne) m,f

2 adjective

nord-vietnamien;

North Wales nord m du pays de Galles; North Walian

1 noun

habitant(e) m,f du nord du pays de Galles

2 adjective

du nord du pays de Galles;

North Yemen Yémen m du Nord;

∎ in North Yemen au Yémen du Nord;

North Yorkshire le North Yorkshire, = comté dans le nord-est de l'Angleterre;

∎ in North Yorkshire dans le North Yorkshire

✾ Film 'North by Northwest' Hitchcock 'La Mort aux trousses'

SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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Allen was the Resident Engineer for construction of the Delaware \& Hudson Canal and in 1828 was instructed by J.B. Jervis to visit England to purchase locomotives for the canal's rail extension. He drove the locomotive Stourbridge Lion, built by J.U. Rastrick, on its first trial on 9 August 1829, but weak track prevented its regular use.

Allen was present at the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in October 1829. So was E.L.Miller, one of the promoters of the South Carolina Canal \& Rail Road Company, to which Allen was appointed Chief Engineer that autumn. Allen was influential in introducing locomotives to this railway, and the West Point Foundry built a locomotive for it to his design; it was the first locomotive built in the USA for sale. This locomotive, which bore some resemblance to Novelty, built for Rainhill by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, was named Best Friend of Charleston. On Christmas Day 1830 it hauled the first scheduled steam train to run in America, carrying 141 passengers.

In 1832 the West Point Foundry built four double-ended, articulated 2–2–0+0–2–2 locomotives to Horatio Allen's design for the South Carolina railroad. From each end of a central firebox extended two boiler barrels side by side with common smokeboxes and chimneys; wheels were mounted on swivelling sub-frames, one at each end, beneath these boilers. Allen's principal object was to produce a powerful locomotive with a light axle loading.

Allen subsequently became a partner in Stillman, Allen \& Co. of New York, builders of marine engines, and in 1843 was President of the Erie Railroad.

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SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping

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Froude was educated at a preparatory school at Buckfastleigh, and then at Westminster School, London, before entering Oriel College, Oxford, to read mathematics and classics. Between 1836 and 1838 he served as a pupil civil engineer, and then he joined the staff of Isambard Kingdom Brunel on various railway engineering projects in southern England, including the South Devon Atmospheric Railway. He retired from professional work in 1846 and lived with his invalid father at Dartington Parsonage. The next twenty years, while apparently unproductive, were important to Froude as he concentrated his mind on difficult mathematical and scientific problems. Froude married in 1839 and had five children, one of whom, Robert Edmund Froude (1846–1924), was to succeed him in later years in his research work for the Admiralty. Following the death of his father, Froude moved to Paignton, and there commenced his studies on the resistance of solid bodies moving through fluids. Initially these were with hulls towed through a house roof storage tank by wires taken over a pulley and attached to falling weights, but the work became more sophisticated and was conducted on ponds and the open water of a creek near Dartmouth. Froude published work on the rolling of ships in the second volume of the Transactions of the then new Institution of Naval Architects and through this became acquainted with Sir Edward Reed. This led in 1870 to the Admiralty's offer of £2,000 towards the cost of an experimental tank for ship models at Torquay. The tank was completed in 1872 and tests were carried out on the model of HMS Greyhound following full-scale towing trials which had commenced on the actual ship the previous year. From this Froude enunciated his Law of Comparisons, which defines the rules concerning the relationship of the power required to move geometrically similar floating bodies across fluids. It enabled naval architects to predict, from a study of a much less expensive and smaller model, the resistance to motion and the power required to move a full-size ship. The work in the tank led Froude to design a model-cutting machine, dynamometers and machinery for the accurate ruling of graph paper. Froude's work, and later that of his son, was prodigious and covered many fields of ship design, including powering, propulsion, rolling, steering and stability. In only six years he had stamped his academic authority on the new science of hydrodynamics, served on many national committees and corresponded with fellow researchers throughout the world. His health suffered and he sailed for South Africa to recuperate, but he contracted dysentery and died at Simonstown. He will be remembered for all time as one of the greatest "fathers" of naval architecture.

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SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Mining and extraction technology

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Greathead came to England in 1859 to complete his education. In 1864 he began a three-year pupillage with the civil engineer Peter W. Barlow, after which he was engaged as an assistant engineer on the extension of the Midland Railway from Bedford to London. In 1869 he was entrusted with the construction of the Tower Subway under the River Thames; this was carried out using a cylindrical wrought-iron shield which was forced forward by six large screws as material was excavated in front of it. This work was completed the same year. In 1870 he set himself up as a consulting engineer, and from 1873 he was Resident Engineer on the Hammersmith and Richmond extensions of the Metropolitan District Railway. He assisted in the preparation of several other railway projects including the Regent's Canal Railway in 1880, the Dagenham Dock and the Metropolitan Outer Circle Railways in 1881, a new line from London to Eastbourne and a number of Irish light railways. He worked on a bill for the City and South London Railway, which was built between 1886 and 1890; here compressed air was used to prevent the inrush of water, a method for tunnelling which was generally adopted from then on. He invented apparatus for the application of water to excavate in front of the shield as well as for injecting cement-grout behind the lining of the tunnel.

He was joint engineer with Sir Douglas Fox for the construction of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, and held the same post with W.R.Galbraith on the Waterloo and City Railway; he was also associated with Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker in the construction of the Central London Railway. He died, aged 52, before the completion of some of these projects.

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SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology

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John Ridley was a preacher in his youth, and then became a mill owner before migrating to Australia with his wife and daughters in 1839. Intending to continue his business in the new colony, he took with him a "Grasshopper" overbeam steam-engine made by James Watt, together with milling equipment. Cereal acreages were insufficient for the steam power he had available, and he expanded into saw milling as well as farming 300 acres. Aware of the Adelaide trials of reaping machines, he eventually built a prototype using the same principles as those developed by Wrathall Bull. After a successful trial in 1843 Ridley began the patent procedure in England, although he never completed the project. The agricultural press was highly enthusiastic about his machine, but when trials took place in 1855 the award went to a rival. The development of the stripper enabled a spectacular increase in the cereal acreage planted over the next decade. Ridley left Australia in 1853 and returned to England. He built a number of machines to his design in Leeds; however, these failed to perform in the much damper English climate. All of the machines were exported to South America, anticipating a substantial market to be exploited by Australian manufacturers.

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SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy

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After working as a millwright in Halifax, Riley found employment at the Ormesby Ironworks in Middlesbrough until, in 1869, he became manager of the Askam Ironworks in Cumberland. Three years later, in 1872, he was appointed Blast-furnace Manager at the pioneering Siemens Steel Company's works at Landore, near Swansea in South Wales. Using Spanish ore, he produced the manganese-rich iron (spiegeleisen) required as an additive to make satisfactory steel. Riley was promoted in 1874 to be General Manager at Landore, and he worked with William Siemens to develop the use of the latter's regenerative furnace for the production of open-hearth steel. He persuaded Welsh makers of tin plate to use sheets rolled from lowcarbon (mild) steel instead of from charcoal iron and, partly by publishing some test results, he was instrumental in influencing the Admiralty to build two naval vessels of mild steel, the Mercury and the Iris.

In 1878 Riley moved north on his appointment as General Manager of the Steel Company of Scotland, a firm closely associated with Charles Tennant that was formed in 1872 to make steel by the Siemens process. Already by 1878, fourteen Siemens melting furnaces had been erected, and in that year 42,000 long tons of ingots were produced at the company's Hallside (Newton) Works, situated 8 km (5 miles) south-east of Glasgow. Under Riley's leadership, steelmaking in open-hearth furnaces was initiated at a second plant situated at Blochairn. Plates and sections for all aspects of shipbuilding, including boilers, formed the main products; the company also supplied the greater part of the steel for the Forth (Railway) Bridge. Riley was associated with technical modifications which improved the performance of steelmaking furnaces using Siemens's principles. He built a gasfired cupola for melting pig-iron, and constructed the first British "universal" plate mill using three-high rolls (Lauth mill).

At the request of French interests, Riley investigated the properties of steels containing various proportions of nickel; the report that he read before the Iron and Steel Institute in 1889 successfully brought to the notice of potential users the greatly enhanced strength that nickel could impart and its ability to yield alloys possessing substantially lower corrodibility.

The Steel Company of Scotland paid dividends in the years to 1890, but then came a lean period. In 1895, at the age of 54, Riley moved once more to another employer, becoming General Manager of the Glasgow Iron and Steel Company, which had just laid out a new steelmaking plant at Wishaw, 25 km (15 miles) south-east of Glasgow, where it already had blast furnaces. Still the technical innovator, in 1900 Riley presented an account of his experiences in introducing molten blast-furnace metal as feed for the open-hearth steel furnaces. In the early 1890s it was largely through Riley's efforts that a West of Scotland Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the Manufactured Steel Trade came into being; he was its first Chairman and then its President.

In 1899 James Riley resigned from his Scottish employment to move back to his native Yorkshire, where he became his own master by acquiring the small Richmond Ironworks situated at Stockton-on-Tees. Although Riley's 1900 account to the Iron and Steel Institute was the last of the many of which he was author, he continued to contribute to the discussion of papers written by others.

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SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy

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After spending some years at his father's Castle Ironworks and at Ebbw Vale Works, Talbot travelled to the USA in 1890 to become Superintendent of the Southern Iron and Steel Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he initiated basic open-hearth steelmaking and a preliminary slag washing to remove silicon. In 1893 he moved to Pennsylvania as Steel Superintendent at the Pencoyd works; there, six years later, he began his "continuous" steelmaking process. Returning to Britain in 1900, Talbot marketed the technique: after ten years it was in successful use in Britain, continental Europe and the USA; it promoted the growth of steel production.

Meanwhile its originator had joined the Cargo Fleet Iron Company Limited on Teesside, where he was made Managing Director in 1907. Twelve years later he assumed, in addition, the same position in the allied South Durham Steel and Iron Company Limited. While remaining Managing Director, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of both companies in 1925, and Chairman in 1940. The companies he controlled survived the depressed 1920s and 1930s and were significant contributors to British steel output, with a capacity of more than half a million tonnes per year.

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adverb ((also farthest) at or to the greatest distance or degree: Who lives furthest away?) más lejos

furthest¹ adj más lejano

Es el superlativo de far

furthest² adv más lejos

Es el superlativo de far

tr['fɜːðɪst]

adjective

1→ link=far far{, further

adverb

1→ link=far far{, further

furthest ['fərðəst] farthest

• más lejano adj.

• super adj.

• más adv.

• más lejano adv.

• super adv.

adverb superl of far I 1)

1. ADV

1) (in distance) más lejos

2) (in progress)

3) (=most) más

ADJ (superl)

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adverb superl of far I 1)

down n ( all contexts) duvet m.

down

❢ Down often occurs as the second element in verb combinations in English ( go down, fall down, get down, keep down, put down etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (go, fall, get, keep, put etc).

When used to indicate vague direction, down often has no explicit translation in French: to go down to London = aller à Londres ; down in Brighton = à Brighton. For examples and further usages, see the entry below.

A adv

1 ( from higher to lower level) to go ou come down descendre ; to fall down tomber ; to sit down on the floor s'asseoir par terre ; to pull down a blind baisser un store ; I'm on my way down je descends ; I'll be right down je descends tout de suite ; down! ( to dog) couché! ; ‘down’ ( in crossword) ‘verticalement’ ; read down to the end of the paragraph lire jusqu'à la fin du paragraphe ;

2 ( indicating position at lower level) down below en bas ; ( when looking down from height) en contrebas ; the noise was coming from down below le bruit venait d'en bas ; they could see the lake down below ils voyaient le lac en contrebas ; down there là-bas ; ‘where are you?’-‘down here!’ ‘où es-tu?’-‘ici!’ ; to keep one's head down garder la tête baissée ; the blinds were down les stores étaient baissés ; a sports car with the hood down une voiture de sport avec la capote baissée ; several trees were blown down plusieurs arbres ont été abattus par le vent ; a bit further down un peu plus bas ; their office is two floors down leur bureau est deux étages plus bas ; it's on the second shelf down c'est au deuxième rayon en partant du haut ; the coal lies 900 metres down le charbon se trouve neuf cents mètres plus bas ; it's down at the bottom of the lake c'est tout au fond du lac ; the telephone lines are down les lignes téléphoniques sont coupées ;

3 ( from upstairs) is Tim down yet? est-ce que Tim est déjà descendu? ;

4 ( indicating direction) to go down to Nice/Brighton descendre à Nice/Brighton ; to go down to London aller à Londres ; down in Brighton à Brighton ; they've gone down to the country for the day ils sont allés passer la journée à la campagne ; they moved down here from Scotland a year ago ils ont quitté l'Écosse pour venir s'installer ici il y a un an ; they live down south ○ ils habitent dans le sud ;

5 (in a range, scale, hierarchy) children from the age of 10 down les enfants de moins de dix ans ; everybody from the Prime Minister down tout le monde depuis le Premier Ministre ; everybody from the lady of the manor down to the lowliest servant tout le monde, de la châtelaine au domestique le plus humble ; from the sixteenth century down to the present day du seizième siècle à nos jours ;

6 (indicating loss of money, decrease in profits etc) hotel bookings are down by a half this year les réservations dans les hôtels ont baissé de moitié par rapport à l'année dernière ; this year's profits are well down on last year's les bénéfices de cette année sont nettement inférieurs à ceux de l'année dernière ; I'm £10 down il me manque 10 livres sterling ; tourism is down 40% this year le tourisme a chuté de 40% cette année ;

7 (indicating decrease in extent, volume, quality, process) to get one's weight down maigrir ; we managed to get the price down to £200 nous avons réussi à faire baisser le prix à 200 livres sterling ; in the end she managed to get the article down to five pages finalement elle a réussi à réduire l'article à cinq pages ; I'm down to my last fiver ○ /cigarette il ne me reste plus que cinq livres sterling/qu'une cigarette ; he described her exactly, right down to the colour of her eyes il l'a décrite très précisément, jusqu'à la couleur de ses yeux ; ‘dollar fever down on Wall St’ journ ‘la spéculation sur le dollar en baisse à Wall Street’ ; that's seven down, three to go! en voilà sept de faits, il n'en reste plus que trois à faire! ;

8 ( in writing) to put sth down (on paper ou in writing) mettre qch par écrit ; it's set down here in black and white c'est écrit ici noir sur blanc ;

9 (on list, programme, schedule) to put sb's name down for sth inscrire qn pour qch ; you're down to speak next c'est toi qui es le prochain à intervenir ; I've got you down for next Thursday ( in appointment book) vous avez rendez-vous jeudi prochain ;

10 ( incapacitated) to be down with the flu/with malaria avoir la grippe/la malaria ;

11 Sport ( behind) to be two sets/six points down [tennis player] avoir deux sets/six points de retard ; the team is down 12-6 l'équipe est menée 12 à 6 ;

12 ( as deposit) to pay £40 down payer 40 livres sterling comptant ;

13 ( downwards) he was lying face down il était couché, le visage face au sol ; the bread fell with the buttered side down la tartine est tombée avec la face beurrée sur le sol.

B prep

1 ( from higher to lower point) they came running down the hill ils ont descendu la colline en courant ; tears ran down his face les larmes coulaient le long de ses joues ; did you enjoy the journey down? est-ce que tu as fait bon voyage? ; she's gone down town elle est allée en ville ;

2 ( at a lower part of) they live down the road ils habitent un peu plus loin dans la rue ; it's down the corridor to your right c'est dans le couloir sur la droite ; it's a few miles down the river from here c'est à quelques kilomètres en aval de la rivière ; the kitchen is down those stairs la cuisine est en bas de cet escalier ;

3 ( along) to go down the street descendre la rue ; a dress with buttons all down the front une robe boutonnée sur le devant ; he looked down her throat il a regardé au fond de sa gorge ; to look down a tunnel/telescope regarder dans un tunnel/télescope ;

4 ( throughout) down the ages ou centuries au cours des siècles, à travers les siècles.

C adj

1 ○ ( depressed) déprimé ; to feel down avoir le cafard ○, être déprimé ;

2 [escalator, elevator] qui descend ; GB Rail [train, line] descendant ;

3 Comput en panne.

D ○ vtr

1 abattre, terrasser [person] ; descendre [plane] ;

2 ( drink) he downed his beer il a descendu ○ son verre de bière.

to have a down on sb, to be down on sb ○ avoir une dent contre qn, en vouloir à qn ; you don't hit a man when he's down Prov on ne frappe pas un homme à terre ; it's down to you to do it c'est à toi de le faire ; it's down to you now c'est à toi de jouer maintenant ; down with tyrants/the king! à bas les tyrans/le roi!

SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Metallurgy, Steam and internal combustion engines

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Adamson was apprenticed between 1835 and 1841 to Timothy Hackworth, then Locomotive Superintendent on the Stockton \& Darlington Railway. After this he was appointed Draughtsman, then Superintendent Engineer, at that railway's locomotive works until in 1847 he became Manager of Shildon Works. In 1850 he resigned and moved to act as General Manager of Heaton Foundry, Stockport. In the following year he commenced business on his own at Newton Moor Iron Works near Manchester, where he built up his business as an iron-founder and boilermaker. By 1872 this works had become too small and he moved to a 4 acre (1.6 hectare) site at Hyde Junction, Dukinfield. There he employed 600 men making steel boilers, heavy machinery including mill engines fitted with the American Wheelock valve gear, hydraulic plant and general millwrighting. His success was based on his early recognition of the importance of using high-pressure steam and steel instead of wrought iron. In 1852 he patented his type of flanged seam for the firetubes of Lancashire boilers, which prevented these tubes cracking through expansion. In 1862 he patented the fabrication of boilers by drilling rivet holes instead of punching them and also by drilling the holes through two plates held together in their assembly positions. He had started to use steel for some boilers he made for railway locomotives in 1857, and in 1860, only four years after Bessemer's patent, he built six mill engine boilers from steel for Platt Bros, Oldham. He solved the problems of using this new material, and by his death had made c.2,800 steel boilers with pressures up to 250 psi (17.6 kg/cm²).

He was a pioneer in the general introduction of steel and in 1863–4 was a partner in establishing the Yorkshire Iron and Steel Works at Penistone. This was the first works to depend entirely upon Bessemer steel for engineering purposes and was later sold at a large profit to Charles Cammell \& Co., Sheffield. When he started this works, he also patented improvements both to the Bessemer converters and to the engines which provided their blast. In 1870 he helped to turn Lincolnshire into an important ironmaking area by erecting the North Lincolnshire Ironworks. He was also a shareholder in ironworks in South Wales and Cumberland.

He contributed to the development of the stationary steam engine, for as early as 1855 he built one to run with a pressure of 150 psi (10.5 kg/cm) that worked quite satisfactorily. He reheated the steam between the cylinders of compound engines and then in 1861–2 patented a triple-expansion engine, followed in 1873 by a quadruple-expansion one to further economize steam. In 1858 he developed improved machinery for testing tensile strength and compressive resistance of materials, and in the same year patents for hydraulic lifting jacks and riveting machines were obtained.

He was a founding member of the Iron and Steel Institute and became its President in 1888 when it visited Manchester. The previous year he had been President of the Institution of Civil Engineers when he was presented with the Bessemer Gold Medal. He was a constant contributor at the meetings of these associations as well as those of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He did not live to see the opening of one of his final achievements, the Manchester Ship Canal. He was the one man who, by his indomitable energy and skill at public speaking, roused the enthusiasm of the people in Manchester for this project and he made it a really practical proposition in the face of strong opposition.

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SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building

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Joseph Aspdin was the eldest of the six children of Thomas Aspdin, a bricklayer. He became interested in making advanced cements for rendering brickwork and, on 21 October 1824, patented a calcined mixture of limestone, clay and water that he called Portland Cement because he thought it resembled Portland Stone in colour.

Aspdin established his first cement works at Kirkgate in Wakefield in 1825: this was demolished in 1838 due to railway development, and a new works was established in the town in 1843. A year later Joseph Aspdin retired and handed the business over to his elder son James. Meanwhile, William, a younger son of Joseph, had also entered the business of manufacturing cement. Born in Leeds on 23 September 1815, he joined his father's firm at the age of 14, but left in 1841 to set up his own firm at Rotherhithe, London. There he manufactured an improved cement that was better and stronger than Parker's Roman Cement, probably because it contained a higher proportion of clinkered material. Further improvements were made during the following years and new factories were established, first at Northfleet in Kent and later at Gateshead on the south bank of the River Tyne (1853). It is interesting that Sir Marc Brunel later preferred to use William Aspdin's cement in the Thames railway tunnel construction because of its greater strength (see Frost). William Aspdin died at Itzehoe in Germany in 1864.

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He was the son of a country lawyer who became legal advisor and travelling companion to certain rich Americans. At an early age Cousteau acquired a love of travel, of the sea and of cinematography: he made his first film at the age of 13. After an interrupted education he nevertheless passed the difficult entrance examination to the Ecole Navale in Brest, but his naval career was cut short in 1936 by injuries received in a serious motor accident. For his long recuperation he was drafted to Toulon. There he met Philippe Tailliez, a fellow naval officer, and Frédéric Dumas, a champion spearfisher, with whom he formed a long association and began to develop his underwater swimming and photography. He apparently took little part in the Second World War, but under cover he applied his photographic skills to espionage, for which he was awarded the Légion d'honneur after the war.

Cousteau sought greater freedom of movement underwater and, with Emile Gagnan, who worked in the laboratory of Air Liquide, he began experimenting to improve portable underwater breathing apparatus. As a result, in 1943 they invented the aqualung. Its simple design and robust construction provided a reliable and low-cost unit and revolutionized scientific and recreational diving. Gagnan shunned publicity, but Cousteau revelled in the new freedom to explore and photograph underwater and exploited the publicity potential to the full.

The Undersea Research Group was set up by the French Navy in 1944 and, based in Toulon, it provided Cousteau with the Opportunity to develop underwater exploration and filming techniques and equipment. Its first aims were minesweeping and exploration, but in 1948 Cousteau pioneered an extension to marine archaeology. In 1950 he raised the funds to acquire a surplus US-built minesweeper, which he fitted out to further his quest for exploration and adventure and named Calypso. Cousteau also sought and achieved public acclaim with the publication in 1953 of The Silent World, an account of his submarine observations, illustrated by his own brilliant photography. The book was an immediate success and was translated into twenty-two languages. In 1955 Calypso sailed through the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean, and the outcome was a film bearing the same title as the book: it won an Oscar and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival. This was his favoured medium for the expression of his ideas and observations, and a stream of films on the same theme kept his name before the public.

Cousteau's fame earned him appointment by Prince Rainier as Director of the Oceanographie Institute in Monaco in 1957, a post he held until 1988. With its museum and research centre, it offered Cousteau a useful base for his worldwide activities.

In the 1980s Cousteau turned again to technological development. Like others before him, he was concerned to reduce ships' fuel consumption by harnessing wind power. True to form, he raised grants from various sources to fund research and enlisted technical help, namely Lucien Malavard, Professor of Aerodynamics at the Sorbonne. Malavard designed a 44 ft (13.4 m) high non-rotating cylinder, which was fitted onto a catamaran hull, christened Moulin à vent. It was intended that its maiden Atlantic crossing in 1983 should herald a new age in ship propulsion, with large royalties to Cousteau. Unfortunately the vessel was damaged in a storm and limped to the USA under diesel power. A more robust vessel, the Alcyone, was fitted with two "Turbosails" in 1985 and proved successful, with a 40 per cent reduction in fuel consumption. However, oil prices fell, removing the incentive to fit the new device; the lucrative sales did not materialize and Alcyone remained the only vessel with Turbosails, sharing with Calypso Cousteau's voyages of adventure and exploration. In September 1995, Cousteau was among the critics of the decision by the French President Jacques Chirac to resume testing of nuclear explosive devices under the Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific.

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SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy

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Gibbons was an ironmaster in the Black Country, South Staffordshire, in charge of six blast furnaces owned by the family business. Until Gibbons's innovation in 1832, small changes in the form of the furnace had at times been made, but no one had seriously questioned the square shape of the hearth. Gibbons noticed that a new furnace often worked poorly by improved as time went on. When it was "blown out", i.e. taken out of commission, he found that the corners of the hearth had been rounded off and the sides gouged out, so that it was roughly circular in shape. Gibbons wisely decided to build a blast furnace with a round hearth alongside an existing one with a traditionally shaped hearth and work them in exactly the same conditions. The old furnace produced 75 tons of iron in a week, about normal for the time, while the new one produced 100 tons. Further improvements followed and in 1838 a fellow ironmaster in the same district, T. Oakes, considerably enlarged the furnace, its height attaining no less than 60ft (18m). As a result, output soared to over 200 tons a week. Most other ironmasters adopted the new form with enthusiasm and it proved to be the basis for the modern blast furnace. Gibbons made another interesting innovation: he began charging his furnace with the "rubbish", slag or cinder, from earlier ironmaking operations. It contained a significant amount of iron and was cheaper to obtain than iron ore, as it was just lying around in heaps. Some ironmasters scorned to use other people's throw-outs, but Gibbons sensibly saw it as a cheap source of iron; it was a useful source for some years during the nineteenth century but its use died out when the heaps were used up. Gibbons published an account of his improvements in ironmaking in a pamphlet entitled Practical Remarks on the Construction of the Staffordshire Blast Furnace.

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The American skyscraper was, in the 1870s and 1880s, very much the creation of what came to be known as the Chicago school of architecture. It was the most important American contribution to the urban architectural scene. At this time conditions were ripe for this type of office development, and in the big cities, notably Chicago and New York, steeply rising land values provided the incentive to build high; the structural means to do so had been triggered by the then low costs of making quality iron and steel. The skyscraper appeared after the invention of the passenger lift by Otis and the pioneer steel-frame work of Jenney. In 1875 Holabird was working in Jenney's office in Chicago. By 1883 he had set up in private practice, joined by another young architect, Martin Roche (1855–1927), and together they were responsible for the Tacoma Building (1887–9) in Chicago. In this structure the two front façades were entirely non-load-bearing and were carried by an internal steel skeleton; only the rear walls were load-bearing. The design of the building was not revolutionary (this had to wait for L.H. Sullivan) but was traditional in form. It was the possibility of being able to avoid load-bearing outer walls that enabled a building to rise above some nine storeys, and the thirteen-storeyed Tacoma Building pointed the way to the future development of the skyscraper. The firm of Holabird \& Roche continued in the following decades in Chicago to design and construct further high-quality, although lower, commercial buildings such as those in South Michigan Avenue and the McClurg Building. However, they are best remembered for their contribution in engineering to the development of high-rise construction.

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Lartigue worked as a civil engineer in Algeria and while there invented a simple monorail for industrial or agricultural use. It comprised a single rail carried on trestles; vehicles comprised a single wheel with two tubs suspended either side, like panniers. These were pushed or pulled by hand or, occasionally, hauled by mule. Such lines were used in Algerian esparto-grass plantations.

In 1882 he patented a monorail system based on this arrangement, with important improvements: traction was to be mechanical; vehicles were to have two or four wheels and to be able to be coupled together; and the trestles were to have, on each side, a light guide rail upon which horizontal rollers beneath the vehicles would bear. Early in 1883 the Lartigue Railway Construction Company was formed in London and two experimental prototype monorails were subsequently demonstrated in public. One, at the Paris Agricultural Exhibition, had an electric locomotive that was built in two parts, one either side of the rail to maintain balance, hauling small wagons. The other prototype, in London, had a small, steam locomotive with two vertical boilers and was designed by Anatole Mallet. By now Lartigue had become associated with F.B. Behr. Behr was Managing Director of the construction company and of the Listowel \& Ballybunion Railway Company, which obtained an Act of Parliament in 1886 to built a Lartigue monorail railway in the South West of Ireland between those two places. Its further development and successful operation are described in the article on Behr in this volume.

A much less successful attempt to establish a Lartigue monorail railway took place in France, in the départment of Loire. In 1888 the council of the département agreed to a proposal put forward by Lartigue for a 10 1/2 mile (17 km) long monorail between the towns of Feurs and Panissières: the agreement was reached on the casting vote of the Chairman, a contact of Lartigue. A concession was granted to successive companies with which Lartigue was closely involved, but construction of the line was attended by muddle, delay and perhaps fraud, although it was completed sufficiently for trial trains to operate. The locomotive had two horizontal boilers, one either side of the track. But the inspectors of the department found deficiencies in the completeness and probable safety of the railway; when they did eventually agree to opening on a limited scale, the company claimed to have insufficient funds to do so unless monies owed by the department were paid. In the end the concession was forfeited and the line dismantled. More successful was an electrically operated Lartigue mineral line built at mines in the eastern Pyrenees.

It appears to have reused equipment from the electric demonstration line, with modifications, and included gradients as steep as 1 in 12. There was no generating station: descending trains generated the electricity to power ascending ones. This line is said to have operated for at least two years.

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SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy

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Reinhard Mannesmann and his four brothers developed the engineering works at Remscheid that had been founded by their father. With his brother Max, Reinhard devised c. 1885 a method of producing seamless tubes by a rolling process. Factories for manufacturing tubes by this process were established at Remscheid, at Bous in the Saar district and at Komotau in Bohemia. Further developments of the process were patented by the brothers in the years following the initial patent of 1885. The British patent rights for the Mannesmann process were purchased by the Landore Siemens Steel Company in 1888, and the Mannesmann Tube Company was established at Landore in South Wales. This company went into liquidation in 1899 after ten years of production and the Tube Works was then purchased by the Mannesmann family, and a new company, the British Mannesmann Tube Company, was formed. Reinhard and Max Mannesmann took up residence near the Landore works and the business prospered so that by 1914 Landore was employing 1,500 men and producing 35,000 tons of tubing each year. The company was taken over during the First World War by the Custodian of Enemy Property, and after the war a new tube works which had been planned in 1914 was built at Newport, Monmouthshire. The Mannesmann family were able to resume control in 1926 for some ten years, but in 1938 the company became part of the Stewarts \& Lloyds organization.

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